Midland show off a different side of themselves in the atmospheric new song “Put the Hurt on Me,” the latest offering from their upcoming second album Let It Roll. Co-produced by Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne and Dann Huff, Let It Roll will be released August 23rd. Midland’s members Mark Wystrach, …
Read More »Chris Shiflett: At the Grand Ole Opry With Americana's Biggest Rock Star
Chris Shiflett is no stranger to big stages. As guitarist for the Foo Fighters, Shiflett has played the world’s largest venues and shared bills with some of rock & roll’s finest acts. On a Friday evening in Nashville in mid-May, though, he’s preparing to step out onto a stage that …
Read More »Warren Surges to Second Place in National Poll, Eating Into Support for Sanders
Elizabeth Warren has jumped into second place nationally in a poll of the Democratic 2020 field. The Economist/YouGov survey shows her surge has come at the expense of Bernie Sanders, who now sits in third place. No surprise: The poll finds Joe Biden still comfortably in first place. But the …
Read More »Campaign Conventional Wisdom Is Dead
Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein just published a new piece called, “Is Bernie Finished?” Citing Iowa poll numbers that show poor Sanders “essentially in a three person race for second” (he actually is in second, but whatever), its premise is that Bernie now rests “at the fringes of plausibility.” Worse, he could …
Read More »Watch Roy Family Keep Quarreling Over Media Empire in New 'Succession' Trailer
The Roy family picks up the Lannister’s torch as HBO’s nastiest, most dysfunctional TV family in the new trailer forSuccession, which returns August 11th. Season Two finds Brian Cox’s Logan Roy — the Rupert Murdoch-esque family patriarch and CEO of the Waystar Royco media empire — welcoming his son Kendall …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Ad Astra,' Martin Scorsese's New Dylan Doc
Finally — an Ad Astra trailer! We’ve been waiting to catch a glimpse of the James Gray/Brad Pitt sci-fi opus, and the first look at what these gentleman have in store for people who like space and headscratching existentialism more than delivers. Also: extended peeks at Martin Scorsese’s incredible new …
Read More »Flashback: Ray Charles Strikes Accidental Gold With 'What'd I Say'
One night in December 1958, Ray Charles and his band were scheduled to play a four-hour set at a Pittsburgh dance hall. At the time, this was a regular gig for the singer-pianist, a promising Atlantic-signed artist who had broken through with his 1954 single “I Got a Woman.” Charles …
Read More »The Futureheads Preview New Album With 'Jekyll'
The Futureheads will release Powers, the band’s first album in seven years, August 30th. The band previewed the release with a raucous, dramatic single called “Jekyll,” a track that recalls the group’s earlier albums. The Futureheads’ last album, Rant, dropped in 2012. The album ignored the angular guitar riffs of …
Read More »Watch Brad Pitt Go to Space in 'Ad Astra' Trailer
20th Century Fox has dropped the first trailer for Brad Pitt‘s Ad Astra, a sci-fi thriller due in theater September 20th. The action-packed trailer shows Pitt as an astronaut who has to help save the Earth when he discovers his father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, has been doing threatening …
Read More »Argentine Trap Singer Cazzu Drops Surreal New '00:00′ Video
Breaking free from the New Music Friday deluge, Latin trap singer Cazzu instead kicked off Monday morning with the release her sophomore album, Error 93. Along with the new record, she released a video for lead single “00:00.” In her latest clip, the singer-songwriter sits cozy with a comic book …
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